Windows setup for mercurial-server

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WARNING: Windows is *not* a supported system. We've gotten this guide to work ok

but the permissions are still broken in various ways to do with the underlying

issues in Windows' permissions system. Unix-based systems, especially Debian and

derivatives are still the main target. Patches to this guide to improve the

support are welcome however!

1) Install Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/) using the setup.exe from there. Tested

against 1.7.12-1, may work with earlier versions. You'll need the base install

plus the following additional packages:

- docbook-xsl

- libxslt

- make

- mercurial

- openssh

- python

Note that even if you've already got them installed in Windows, Python and

Mercurial still need to be installed in Cygwin.

2) Open a new Cygwin terminal as Adminstrator (under Windows 7, that's right

click on "Cygwin Terminal" start menu option and pick "Run as administrator")

3) Run "ssh-host-config -y" and "cygrunsrv -S sshd" to get sshd running. We need

this because there's no proper su in Cygwin (see

http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.su for why this is)

3) Goto the mercurial-server folder and "sh windows.sh setup-windows"

4) Run "passwd hg" and set the password for the hg user (created by

setup-windows), then "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to add them to the Cygwin user

database

5) Run "sh windows.sh inituser-windows" to finish setting up the hg user

5) Following the example from the main mercurial-server documentation (in that

the server is called 'jeeves', your username is 'jay' and the client is called

'spoon'), but with a few differences for Cygwin, we can now get you initial

access. We assume that you've generated a key with PuTTYgen

(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) and then

copied the contents of the "public key" box into a file called my-key. Run the

following, altered as appropriate for your local system:

  mkdir -p /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay

  cp my-key /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay/spoon

  chown hg /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/jay/spoon

  ssh hg@localhost /usr/local/share/mercurial-server/refresh-auth

The rest of the instructions in the normal mercurial-server documentation should

now work. Note that although it's possible to add keys/access info to

/etc/mercurial-server it's much easier to do things via the hgadmin repository,

and doing things via /etc should probably be limited to only if you mess up the

setup in hgadmin.

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